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So that, altogether, Mike's life in the bank had become very fairly pleasant. Out of office-hours he enjoyed himself hugely. London was strange to him, and with Psmith as a companion, he extracted a vast deal of entertainment from it. Psmith was not unacquainted with the West End, and he proved an excellent guide.
To counteract such impressions, injurious to the South and her friends, the remarks which have been extracted were made. On that, as on other occasions, it was deemed a duty to correct misrepresentation and seek to vindicate our purposes from the prejudice which ignorance and agitation had created against us.
A description of the means by which tar, necessary for the navy, may be speedily extracted from the pine-tree. Balloons and telegraphs converted into machines of war. All the process of the arts relative to war simplified and improved by the application of the most learned theories. A secret establishment formed at Meudon for that purpose.
If Lady Mary had been aware of the very serious light in which he had considered Miss Louisa Smith, youngest daughter of a certain curate Smith, who in his youth had been originally extracted from a refreshment-room at Liverpool to become an ornament of the Church, that lady would have swooned with horror.
Doubtless the family had their moments of suffering especially on one occasion when a well-meaning maid extracted from my taxidermist's outfit the old tooth-brush with which I put on the skins the arsenical soap necessary for their preservation, partially washed it, and left it with the rest of my wash kit for my own personal use.
One result of the consultation I extracted from him, in which you are interested. The doctors protested against his employing himself on his proposed work. He was too obstinate to listen to them. There was but one concession that they could gain from him he consented to spare himself, in some small degree, by employing an amanuensis. It was left to Lord Loring to find the man.
I tore open the envelope and extracted from it another of the blue-covered documents. "It's a copy, unsigned, of that last agreement with your father," I said, after a disappointed glance. "It's worth keeping," and I thrust it inside my shirt. But this particular pigeon hole proved to be a mine. In it were several more of the same sort of envelope, all sealed, all addressed to Ramon.
"The very thought of the dentist's cures you. Why don't you go in at once to Mr. Critchlow and have it out like a man?" Mr. Critchlow extracted teeth, and his shop sign said "Bone-setter and chemist." But Mr. Povey had his views. "I make no account of Mr. Critchlow as a dentist," said he. "Then for goodness' sake go up to Oulsnam's." "When? I can't very well go now, and to-morrow is Saturday."
While he was thus conversing, Ferdinand extracted from Henrietta that Glastonbury had not been in the gallery more than a very few minutes; and he felt assured that nothing fatal had transpired. All this time Ferdinand was reviewing his painful situation with desperate rapidity and prescience.
Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, Prose Works, folio, 1697, p. 378. I quote the passage as extracted by Mr. Twelve Paladins had the Emperor Charlemagne in his court; and the most wise and famous of them was Orlando.
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